> I haven't said that to use Vim is bad. Vim is my most favourite editor. I am > myself happy to have Vim around in Plan9 (and am not alone for sure). > Nonetheless, it's bad to not have an alternative which would follow the > system's principles. Please read all I mentioned before. Vim does not follow > those and is more and more distant from them (adding more and more features, > becoming bloated). But now, there is not a Plan9-like editor suited for > editing e.g. aforementioned files with several (real-number) fields (it > simply gets wrapped and is unreadable then; using small fonts is not a > proper solution since a too small font renders the file unreadable again). > To be forced to use Vim right away is in my opinion sad. (Opposite to what > you propose: you have to use Vim, you have no other way == you can't ignore > it.)
why don't you add this feature to acme? you have the source. you care about this feature. - erik
